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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:33:34 -0600
From:      "Burt, Randall -CONT(DYN)" <Randall.Burt@cnet.navy.mil>
To:        "'Stan Brown'" <stanb@panix.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 2bd request, help with older softupdates filesystem
Message-ID:  <B4CA1F5D8D23D411ADC7009027E791BF025ED9FE@pens0394.cnet.navy.Mil>

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Ok, I'm new to this, so forgive. You might try putting the drive in the
freezer for about
30 minutes or so.  It sounds crazy, but I read that this has allowed some
folks around 10 minutes of up time on a failing disk.  This assumes, of
course, that the disk itself is the problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@panix.com]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:34 AM
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: 2bd request, help with older softupdates filesystem


I posted this yesterday, but go no replies.

Sorry for the repost, but I really neeed some advice here.

I have a machien that has been runing for a long time with a large quantity
of data on it (It's a webserver). It's running 3.4 STABLE (yes I know I
should have updateetd). 

It crashed, and on the way up when it tried to run fsck on the /var
partition (IDE drive) it failed.

I went inot single user and tries to run:

fsck -y /dev//wd0s1e

I got a buch of correctinos, nut it finally stoped with.

fsck: Cannot find inode 252

What can I do to get this system up long enough to get the data off of it?

Is it likely this is a genuine disk problem, or is it possible this is a
softupdates problem?

This partiton BTW is /var, so I'm hoping the /usr partiton, where the data
is is recoverable!

-- 
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
						-- Benjamin Franklin

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